Cancer Quotes

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

growth environment

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Nobody knows what the cause is,
Though some pretend they do;
It's like some hidden assassin
Waiting to strike at you.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Fear of cancer is a fear of the unknown.  It is a mysterious blackness with a ghoul's name and a sadist's reputation.

Cancer cells behave like the members of a barbarian horde run amok—leaderless and undirected, but with a single-minded purpose: to plunder everything within reach.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Madness is locked beneath.  It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells.  The cells go mad.  Cancer is their flag.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

When you hear the word cancer, it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted.

I have been attacked by a nuisance of a cancer.  My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am bald as an egg.

Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

All of a sudden I've become a member in an elite club that I'd rather not belong to.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.